I was gone for a week, but you guys seemed to miss my point concerning the Chinese buyout of AMC. I think we shouldn't care that AMC was bought by a Chinese company, but rather we just shouldn't want to support a Chinese company. We have no problem with Chinese people supporting them financially. We would just rather support companies that create domestic jobs. The acquisition itself is not an issue.
Personally, I try to only buy American-made stuff as much as I can. Obviously it's pretty much impossible to do this with EVERYTHING, but who said there couldn't be a grey area? http://americansworking.com/
Not gonna get into it with you that much, but this is absolutely NOT the standard doctrine of austrian economics, libertarianism, whatever. Belief in efficient and free markets trumps nationalism. "Buy American" means "allow yourself to accept inferior or higher priced goods due to nationalism"
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